Senior Staff Developer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead DevX and SDLC technical direction across domains, enabling AI-DLC and agentic automation.
• Design and scale agentic systems for the software development lifecycle and make AI a useful extension of engineering practice while keeping human judgment and security involved.
• Build reusable developer platform architecture on public cloud infrastructure and guide organizational DevX and AI-DLC strategy with Principal Architects.
• Translate business needs into adoptable platform solutions and solve challenges involving development environments, CI/CD supply chains, authentication, and quality gates.
• Diagnose adoption friction, influence workflows, and turn shared tools and components into organization-wide standards.
• Build DevSecOps and cloud-native security into the delivery stack; create technical documentation, enablement guides, and implementation processes.
• Develop platform, agentic, and product proof-of-concepts; mentor senior developers and participate in architectural reviews.

Qualifications and experience

• Hands-on DevX experience building internal developer platforms, golden-path templates, automated quality gates, and shared engineering component libraries.
• 8+ years of scalable software development experience with software design accountability.
• 2+ years in technical leadership driving organization-wide platform capabilities or engineering productivity.
• Expertise in DevX, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity systems; hands-on experience with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and LLM tooling.
• Strong grasp of cloud infrastructure, API-first design, loosely coupled systems, and modern software architecture.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience coding in Python or Java and familiarity with FastAPI or Spring Boot.
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP cloud-native infrastructure; Azure is a bonus.
• Strong communication, ability to influence adoption, and commitment to secure, ethical, inclusive engineering practices.

Technical skills

• Developer Experience, internal developer platforms, SDLC tooling, AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and LLM tooling.
• Public cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native security.
• Python or Java; frameworks include FastAPI or Spring Boot. Cloud examples include AWS, GCP, and bonus Azure experience.
• Engineering systems may include Jira, CI, and observability integrations.

Work arrangement

• Benevity describes its work approach as flexible hybrid, with no set in-office time for employees near an office.